The men and women of our superb Active and Reserve Armed Forces have been on a wartime footing now for over 7 years.

I cannot think of a better use of the Congress' time and efforts to come together and come up with a game plan to deal with our consumption back here at home.

We don't have private sector dental health care usually. It's not that the Army's just inheriting a problem that society has.

Thank you for the job you've done for the country, and I think you can leave your post looking back and saying that you were there when it mattered the most maybe since World War II for sure.

If you'll serve 22 years, you can maybe retire at 50.

I would urge you, when it comes to budget matters, programs that need funding, to be more aggressive, lean forward.

how much money was allocated by component in fiscal year 2008, and fiscal year 2009 to attract and retain mental health professionals both in uniform and as civilian?

The Army's suicide prevention strategy does not rely on increasing dwell time as part of our approach to reducing suicides.

What additional metrics regarding attempted suicides are needed in order to tailor specific suicide prevention strategies to populations at risk in DOD?

$50 million sounds like a lot of money to me. Do you support that initiative?

That's the point. I mean that is an astonishing number, to me, if you had 780 contacts last year.

We know that statistically suicide is rare yet it remains one of the leading causes of death among young adults.